> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Senior Software Engineer, TorchPass Product Engineering Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/15c23388a215b20d Clockwork Systems posts a senior FDE role to build what the customer runs in Palo Alto, CA, at $150,000–$230,000 base, level with the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,868 postings with pay. Senior Software Engineer on the TorchPass Product Engineering team, owning the customer-facing installation, configuration, observability, and deployment experience for distributed PyTorch training infrastructure. Read from the employer’s posting on November 9, 2026. - [Clockwork Systems](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clockwork-systems) Posted Oct 9, 2026 by Clockwork Systems · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 9, 2026 **$150,000–$230,000** + equity Palo Alto, CA On-site Senior Software Engineer on the TorchPass Product Engineering team, owning the customer-facing installation, configuration, observability, and deployment experience for distributed PyTorch training infrastructure. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F15c23388a215b20d&placement=top) - [View posting at Clockwork Systems](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clockworksystems/jobs/6221661004) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $150K–$230K Level with the median Midpoint $190K · median $190K This job $150K to $230K. Senior FDE postings, 1,868 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **4+ years** building or operating infrastructure software in production Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 4+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Palo Alto, CA. Could you work there? 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As AI workloads grow increasingly complex, traditional infrastructure struggles to meet the demands of performance, reliability, and precise coordination. Clockwork is pioneering a software-driven approach to AI fabrics by delivering **cross-stack observability** to catch and quickly resolve problems, **workload fault tolerance** to keep jobs running through failures, and **performance acceleration** that dynamically routes and paces traffic to avoid congestion. ### To learn more, visit www.clockwork.io. ### About the Role TorchPass keeps distributed PyTorch training running through hardware and network failures. The Product Engineering team makes it something customers can install, trust, and run on their own clusters. We are looking for an experienced engineer who has turned working infrastructure software into a product that other people can deploy and operate. You will own the parts of TorchPass that customers touch, and you will be one of the engineers they hear from when something does not work. This is a product and deployment role. It does not require GPU runtime, NCCL, or kernel experience. ### What You Will Do - Build and own the customer-facing surfaces of TorchPass: installation, configuration, and the views that show customers what the product is doing - Keep product documentation accurate with every release - Work directly with customers and our solutions engineers during evaluations: read logs, separate product defects from environment issues, and say clearly what happened - Turn what we learn in the field into fixes, tests, and documentation - Define, together with the core engineering team, what TorchPass needs from a customer's cluster and what it guarantees in return - Extend TorchPass to new schedulers and job launchers as customers need them ### What We're Looking For - 4+ years building or operating infrastructure software in production - You have taken a system that worked for its authors and made it installable and supportable by people who did not build it - Strong debugging skills on production systems you did not write - Deep experience with Kubernetes or Slurm - Strong Python, and the ability to read and change Go - You use AI coding tools well, and you understand and stand behind the code you ship - You write documentation that people follow successfully - You are comfortable working with customers on technical problems - A degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience ### Preferred - Experience with GPU clusters or machine learning training infrastructure - Experience with release engineering: build pipelines, packaging, artifact delivery - Experience bringing up clusters across more than one cloud provider ### Enjoy - Challenging projects. - A friendly and inclusive workplace culture. - Competitive compensation. - A great benefits package. - Catered lunch. Compensation for this position will vary based on the skills and experience you bring, as well as internal equity considerations. For candidates hired at the posted level, the expected base salary range is $150,000 - $230,000. In addition to cash compensation, this role is eligible to participate in the ** company’s equity program**, which may include stock options granted in accordance with the company’s equity plan and subject to approval and applicable vesting schedules. **Clockwork Systems is an equal opportunity employer.** We are committed to building world-class teams by welcoming bright, passionate individuals from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. We believe diversity drives innovation, and we grow stronger together. 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